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巨 (Kangxi radical 48, 工+2 in traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean, 工+1 in mainland China, 5 strokes in traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean, 4 strokes in mainland China, cangjie input尸尸 (SS), four-corner71717, composition⿷工コ(TJK) or ⿷匚コ(G))
Pictogram (象形) – a carpenter's square held in hand by a man 大; the original form of 矩 (OC*kʷaʔ). Borrowed phonetically for the sense "enormous".
Etymology 1
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan*wa(“large, wide, distant”). Insides Sinitic, 巨 (OC *gwaʔ ?) is possibly related to 迂 (OC *wa, “to enlarge, increase”) and perhaps 況 (OC *hwaŋh, “to increase, increasingly, how much more, moreover”); outsides Sinitic, cognate with Mizovak(“with force, very hard, much, exceedingly, in large number / quantities, (open mouth) wide”).